Canada could become carbon neutral by 2040
The 2050 Plan can be implemented ahead of schedule.
Canada is one of the leading nations in the Western Hemisphere: level of freedom, economic success, membership in international organizations.
The country, of course, is looking to the future: one of its most ambitious goals is to become carbon-neutral by 2050. However, there are many challenges along the way.
Canada is now building a huge oil pipeline across the country that has become five times more expensive than intended. And forest fires, that started in Alberta and later spread to Quebec and Nova Scotia, are awfully demaging for the environment.
Nevertheless, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson assured everybody that no matter what Canada not only has the ability to meet the 2050 Plan, but to surpass it. The Government of Canada's current goal is to reach zero emissions, the point at which the amount of greenhouse gases, the well-known CO2, is equal to the amount of CO2 that can be "removed" from the air.
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